How often nowadays we hear various ones refer to the "forgotten man!" The question comes to my mind: Who is the most forgotten man today? Perhaps you will hardly believe me when I tell you it is the Man in the glory of God, whose name is Jesus. This statement may startle you. Nevertheless it is the solemn truth that with thousands Jesus is a forgotten Man.
In this land with immense numbers of so-called churches and missions, many honor Him only with their lips. Their hearts are far from Him. Over three hundred days in each year His name is barely mentioned, and He is very seldom thought of.
WHO is this Man we forget? None other than God's eternal Son, whose goings forth were from everlasting to everlasting.
“He held the highest place above,
Adored by all the sons of flame.”
WHAT has He done? He who was the highest of all—subsisting in the form of God—invested with all the untreated splendor and glory of the Godhead—became a man, took the place of a servant, submitted to a most cruel death, to glorify God and settle the great question of good and evil. But even more than that, through the cleansing virtue of the blood which He shed on Calvary, He has laid a righteous basis whereby poor sinful man may be lifted out of the depths of sin up to the heights of glory in association with Himself.
Immense sums are spent by governments to ease the lot of what they designate as "the forgotten man." But what can be compared with the riches of the glory the Lord Jesus brought to God and the blessing He secured for every poor, penitent sinner that simply trusts in Him who accomplished that wonderful work on Calvary's cross? He offers the riches of His grace freely to all who will receive it. Yet He is the forgotten Man.
Dear reader, if still a stranger to this blessed Savior, don't, I plead with you, don't forget Him any longer. See His arms out-stretched to welcome you to His heart. Come to Him now! Secure for yourself these wonderful blessings and this full salvation through Christ the Lord. Enthrone Him in your heart. Let Him no longer be to you the forgotten Man.